People Count Dead In Worst Storm For 1600 Years
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1953 · page 1
LONDON, Monday.--People in England and the continent to-day counted their dead as dropping winds promised a respite from the week-end floods which have caused untold damage. The latest count shows that 597 people have lost their lives in…
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Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 February 1953 · page 1
LONDON, Tuesday.— The storm-fashed North Sea, reclaiming for its own land captured by man over centuries, by 11 p.m. G.M.T. lost night had killed well over 1000 people in the tidal flows over the lowlands of Britain, Holland and Belgium, during…
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Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 February 1953 · page 1
LONDON, Wednesday.--Rescue workers and troops repairing dykes and seawalls in Holland and Britain to-day redoubled their efforts in a race against time as they are faced with a renewed menace from the North Sea…
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Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 February 1953 · page 3
CANBERRA. Wed.--Dutch migrants in Australia had contributed finance, bedding and warm clothing…
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Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 February 1953 · page 2
THE recent flood and hurricane disasters in Britain and the Low Countries have aroused a wave of sympathy. Also they have given men…
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Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 February 1953 · page 3
An appeal for assistance for the flood devastated peoples of Britain and Holland was launched in Grafton last night by the Mayor, Ald. J. I. Moorhead…
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Daily Examiner · Monday 9 February 1953 · page 3
Enthusiastic support for the British-Dutch flood appeal launched by the Mayor of Grafton (Ald. J. I. Moorhead) on Friday night was expressed during the week-end by a…
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Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 1
BRISBANE, Mon.--More than 500,000 acres of pastoral land have been flooded in north west Queensland…
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Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 3
Airmail photographs, showing the devastation caused by floods and gales which swept the…
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Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 3
LONDON, Wednesday.--Gales, blizzards and torrential rain swept across Britain yesterday while mountainous seas smashed abortively against the nation's hurriedly…
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Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 3
The first Service Club contributions to the Grafton and district appeal for the flood victims of Great…
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Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 3
Fanners near the town of Zuidland, between Rotterdam, and Dordrecht, drive cattle into the main square in the hope that floodwaters will not reach them. It is expected that the deathroll from last week's floods and gales in Holland will reach 2000…
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Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 February 1953 · page 2
A total of £68810 was collected on Saturday the women's committee formed at South Grafton to…
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Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 February 1953 · page 2
SYDNEY, Monday.--The Weather Bureau to-night issued flood warnings for nine northern New South…
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Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 February 1953 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tues.--Continued rain over most of New South Wales to-day is not expected to cause…
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Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 February 1953 · page 6
NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY.--The worst dust storm in 20 years has covered two thirds of Texas. It was the…
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Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 February 1953 · page 2
Copmanhurst Shire Council will co-operate in the appeal for the relief of distress in flooded, areas of…
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Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 February 1953 · page 2
THE response to the appeals launched in Australia to assist relief measures for the flood devastated people of England and Holland has…
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Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 20 February 1953 · page 12
The [?] of tge gate leading to the south [?]land of the [?] was objected to a the meeting of the Chomber of…
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The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 February 1953 · page 8
Help the Red Cross Flood Relief Appeal for victims in England and Holland. Subscriptions at Truscott's Pharmacy…
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